Press Release

Three-year evaluation finds Live Arts Boston strengthening Greater Boston arts sector, particularly for artists of color

A new, in-depth report of Live Arts Boston (LAB) titled "Live Arts Boston: Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Equity in the Performing Arts" demonstrates that the program has had a strong positive impact on the arts ecosystem in Greater Boston, the Boston Foundation announced today. The program, launched in 2017 as a partnership of the Boston Foundation and the Barr Foundation, was assessed by Barbara Schaffer Bacon and Pam Korza, co-directors of Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts.

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City of Ideas

Lobbying for Change

A key component of the Boston Foundation's civic leadership strategy is our work in Public Affairs - connecting our data, research and the voices of those fighting for change in Greater Boston with policy makers and other leaders. Here, our Public Affairs team takes a look at where things stand on a number of key issues in Boston and the Commonwealth.

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Press Release

Finding Your Postsecondary WHY: Boston Public Schools Celebrates College and Career Readiness in October

Throughout October, BPS and Success Boston, along with multiple nonprofit and community partners, will collaborate on a campaign to encourage students at all grade levels to begin planning for college and their career.

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Press Release

Massachusetts United for Puerto Rico announces final grants from fund in support of Puerto Rico recovery

Three years after its launch in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Massachusetts United for Puerto Rico announces it has distributed the more than $4 million in donations from businesses, foundations, and individuals to help the island recover from the devastation left by the storm, and support Puerto Ricans displaced to Massachusetts.

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In the Media

City Scenes: How Boston's DIY Hip-Hop Community Is Fending For Itself

Here, some of Boston's favorite hip-hop artists - Oompa, Brandie Blaze, Cliff Notez, Red Shaydez, Billy Dean Thomas and more - describe the city's unique hip-hop ecosystem, the need to create space for the genre in Boston's music and arts scenes, navigating being a hip-hop artist during the pandemic and more. TBF is proud to have supported many of the artists quoted in this piece via Live Arts Boston.

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In the Media

Fixing Greater Boston’s housing crisis starts with legalizing apartments near transit

A new report by Boston Indicators & Brookings Institute titled "Zoned Out: Why Massachusetts Needs to Legalize Apartments Near Transit" analyzes Greater Boston's housing crisis and the policy choices behind it; they propose legalizing moderate-density housing near transit stations as a solution.

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In the Media

Mass. has an opportunity to lead the way on police reform

In this joint op-ed, Imari Paris Jeffires, Segun Idowu & Rahsaan Hall call on Massachusetts leaders to "make a bold statement about the true meaning of equal protection under the law" by passing the Policing Reform Bill and including in it four key measures.

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In the Media

Lessons from Puerto Rico’s Hurricane María disaster relief grantmaking

Massachusetts United for Puerto Rico co-chairs Aixa Beauchamp and Vanessa Calderón-Rosado discuss what disaster relief for Hurricane Maria taught us about grantmaking.

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Report

Live Arts Boston: Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Equity in the Performing Arts

A review of the three-year impact of the Live Arts Boston program demonstrates the power of making grants to individual artists to produce and perform new works.

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Report

Greater Boston Housing Report Card: Housing Equity and Resilience in Greater Boston's Post-COVID Economy

The third installment of the Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2020 series looks at the looming challenges facing housing equity and stability even after the COVID-19 pandemic, and floats some policy ideas for protecting renters, landlords and homeowners

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Report

A Guaranteed Income for Massachusetts

Boston Indicators teams up with the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center and the Economic Security Project to explore how an expansion of the state Earned Income Tax Credit could provide a guaranteed income stream, and improved financial security, to over 1.7 million Massachusetts residents in families earning less than $70,000 per year.

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Report

Race, Equity & Housing in the Time of COVID-19

In the second installment of the Greater Boston Housing Report Card report series, researchers from the UMass Donahue Institute highlight the links between decades of housing inequity and lack of affordability and the spread of COVID-19 in 2020.

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